Past Experience

I gained a particularly large amount of past experience through objective thinking and the ability to become proficient without the benefit of training or pre-existing knowledge.
The following is a list of some of my noteworthy experience.

But don't be discouraged if none of this relates to what you're looking for...
I've worked with or "taught myself" far more things than are or could be listed.
I'm likely to teach myself whatever field your problem might
lie in.

If something here matches some of your needs... Great! It's a big
time-saver if I already have specialized experience in that field.

But if you're interested in something more original, obscure, or
even cutting-edge than listed below, then perhaps it'll become the
next new field or application to be listed below!

Software

Stand-Alone Embedded Firmware

Extremely high-performance optimized machine/assembly code

Can write machine/assembly which with very significant performance increases,
even when compared to what one might otherwise consider to "optimized
assembler code."

Authored complete working stand-alone code, which ran independent of
ANY pre-existing software or operating system.

Real-time programming

Created many devices based on very inexpensive 8-bit microcontrollers

Worked with hardware engineers to debug/modify and/or redesign target boards

Designed and fully implimented original complete networking protocols for
stand-alone devices used to fully impliment a distributed multitasking
multidrop packet-switched network

Created voice-based interface for an original standalone telephony device
which successfully provided the original offering of telephone services
for a telephony company which is now one of world's largest telephony
companies.

Created original artwork and animations rendered from original 3D models

Retouching, modification, animation and optimatizion
of images based on photographic sources and original 2D artwork

Worked out specifications with clients and put together and
coordinated small web-design teams

Created a live functioning "paypal-like" online-member payment system
based on customer specifications and customer-submitted artwork

Wrote "robots" or "crawlers" to obtain data from third-party
websites and other sources, including

Custom databases to locate and evaluate available premium
domain names for both our own use and speculative resale
.

Interfacing to live online banking services in order to create
a "paypal-like" online-member payment system

Developed a custom "top-level" IP-based routers for special
applications

Write original user interfaces and interface-elements, both textual and graphics,
and to maximize user efficiency.

Rewrote and reconceptulatizing the user interface to reposition/market
a standalone electronic devices product.

tcsh scripting including special utilities, programming styles and
bug work-arounds to extend the usability of the language

vim scripting/hacking including custom syntax highlighing, live updates,
and even advanced scripts to provide accounting and spread-sheet-like
general-purpose and application-specific functionality.

Designing and Inventing

Designed/invented specialize furniture to make use of tight spaces such as
lofts with high ceilings on the interior of mobile homes and vans

Designed corporate culture based on the needs of employees with documented and undocumented special disabilities
such as ADD, NLD, OCPD, and Asperger's Syndrome. This included distributing different tasks and
having very different expectations of each individual, based on special
abilities and short-comings.

Designing and building with a Dremel® tool.

Inventing new ways to influence people by annoying

them. (Useful
applications are limited, but no group
is too big or too small.)

* - I used just "reference manuals" for specific computer languages/code.
To start doing CGI, I admittedly ended up skimming through hundreds
of pages of guides, but only because that's how long it took me to
figure out what I needed, which could have been written in roughly
one-half-page of reference information.